PREJUDICE AND PRIDE

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PREJUDICE AND PRIDE
Eva Elisabeth Beling; 2021; Sweden; 100 min.
English and Swedish

PREJUDICE AND PRIDE is a psychedelic ride through a myriad of films that reveals Sweden to be the unknown vanguard and voyeur of queer cinema. Implied and explicit queer movie clips make up this film, thanks to Sweden’s free use law that puts works that originate from Sweden in the public domain. From Mauritz Stiller directing the world's first gay romance in 1916, to Sweden's exciting new wave of Scandinavian transgender films, this journey through Swedish cinema includes arcane drag kings and queens, revelations about Ingmar Bergman, and analysis of Greta Garbo and 70s sexploitation camp, punctuated with the highs and lows of a centuries-long struggle for queer liberation.